Call for the Fabulous Fifty

25. April 2017 |
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Please note that this article is based on the old Whiskystats database.
Some numbers and figures may not match what you find in the Whiskystats 2.0 database.

We plan to set up a new index which shall represent the most outstanding single malts on the market. This index will be called the “Whiskystats Fabulous Fifty” and we invite you to name us your All-Star picks which should be included!
Until now we have permanent indices for all the distilleries, bottlers and regions we track. And there is of course the Whiskystats Whisky Index, which purpose is to describe the secondary market as a whole. What all of these indices have in common is that the bottles they include are defined by the market as they each represent the value of the respective most traded bottles.

We now want to go one step in the other direction and manually define an index. Naturally the first thing to do is to create an index for the top-bottles, the bottles that create headlines and water each whisky lover’s mouth. So the question is which single malts are these?

We are looking for outstanding single malts. Of course they need to be listed in our whisky database and we are looking for quite regularly traded whiskies too. Also we would like to have a nice diversification, i.e. we do not want to have a Macallan- or Islay-only index. To guide the direction we have already selected the first members of the Whiskystats Fab50. For any suggestions just drop a comment below. If you feel that one of the chosen bottles does not deserve the nomination, let us know too! Here are our picks so far.

Note: This list will be kept updated until we find the 50 bottles to include.
Currently we count 50 candidates for the Fab50. Feel free to leave your comments on these candidates!

Further Readings

Indices help us to compare different parts of the market. This is why we want to introduce the whiskystats distillery indices, a representation of the price evolution of the most traded bottles by distillery.

After we trained our algorithms to read prices from Bonhams Hong Kong, the next obvious step is to also get the prices from Bonhams Edinburgh. These new observations perfectly blend in with those from the other european auctioneers. Here are the prices from Bonhams Edinburgh!

As announced we will soon start tracking Bourbon whiskeys too! To do so we of course need to know what to track. So we invite you to tell us the Bourbon distilleries and brands we definitely should cover!

I would put the standard Yoichi 20yo in there. My thinking is that it is the best “standard” bottle to represent that distillery. Springbank 1966 is another classic worth including I think, obviously there are quite a few versions to choose from, so maybe put in the one that is most traded at auctions?

We added the Laphroaig 40yo (1960), the Lagavulin 37yo (1976), the Octomore Orpheus, the Highland Park Hjarta, the Ladyburn 27yo (1973), the Yoichi 20yo and the Springbank 30yo 1966 Local Barley. Thanks!@hotrene there seem to be a lot of Balvenie 25yo with 46.9. Considering the number of trades the Single Barrel 4001 would be an option.

Glenmorangie 28yo (1975) Tain L Hermitage, Glenmorangie 19yo (1987) Margaux Cask, Balvenie 25yo (1978) Single Barrel 4001 and Glenlivet 25yo Royal Wedding Reserve are now part of the Fab50.
Looks like we already have a nice diversification. There are only three spots left.